Quotes by : John Adams

A government of laws, and not of men.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution....

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance....

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene....

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood,....

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division....

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.